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- Buckminster Fuller 1980

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The BFI’s newsletter. Volume 14, No. 3 is now online!

NEW! Fuller’s Everything I Know plus complete audio files now online.

BFI President's Message
Emerging through Emergency

NEW! - spaceshipEARTH v1.0 is now online. Visit the presentation site for BFI's flagship initiative at www.spaceshipearth.org.

Designing The Next Industrial Revolution by William McDonough
Excerpt from a talk given at the Bioneers Conference

Ocean Wave Energy Conversion: The Next Wave in Renewable Energy?
by Misha Cornes

Hypercar News

Check out articles by Buckmister Fuller and others on Humanity’s Option for Success

Calculate Your Ecological Footprint

This Holiday Season shop on-line at BFI for meaningful gifts: books, videos, maps and toys, like the popular RogerŐs Connection Kit.

Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth, by Lester H. Brown. A new book with a new vision of a new economy that is in harmony with the earth.

Turn the Tide offers participants nine simple, ecologically smart ways to change their lives, and the site calculates how many resources the user saves.

Wind Powering America: Determine the wind power capacity in your area of interest with this map of United States wind resources.

Your Private Sky, R. Buckminster Fuller, The Art of Design Science
Japan Tour

• Watari-Um, Tokyo
  Nov. 29th, 2001 – May 06th , 2002

Education Automation, Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies by Buckminster Fuller

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller

Grunch of Giants by Buckminster Fuller

A Fuller Explanation by Amy Edmondson

Synergetics, Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking and Synergetics 2
Now fully integrated into one volume online.

Everything I Know
The full transcripts to Fuller’s 42 hour lecture. NEW! Fuller’s Everything I Know plus complete audio files now online.

World Design Science Decade Documents: Inventory of World Resources, Human Trends and Needs now available on line by pdf